These states impose restrictions on the information reported in pre-employment background checks
California: CA Civil Code
(Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act) 1785.13.6 – Conviction No
consumer credit reporting agency shall make any consumer credit report
containing any of the following items of information (6) Records of
arrest, indictment, information, misdemeanor complaint, or conviction
of a crime that, from the date of disposition, release, or parole,
antedate the report by more than seven years. These items of
information shall no longer be reported if at any time it is learned
that in the case of a conviction a full pardon has been granted, or in
the case of an arrest, indictment, information or misdemeanor complaint
a conviction did not result. |